{"id":34875,"date":"2025-10-31T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34875"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:46:15","slug":"five-belows-peanuts-snow-water-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34875","title":{"rendered":"Five Below’s Peanuts Snow Water Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I needed to go to the grocery store this afternoon, and after I went next door to Five Below to have a look around. Today being Halloween, they had their Christmas sections set up, and as I was on my way out the door, something caught my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Peanuts Snow Water Speaker<\/a><\/i>. Snoopy in his puffer coat, snow falling around him, and a Bluetooth speaker with light effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need a little joy in my life, and it was only ten dollars, so…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right off the bat, it didn’t come with instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes with the speaker, a bag of little plastic balls you put in the water tank for the snow effect, and a USB-C power cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a couple of USB-C cords already plugged into outlets or computers, and I found it would work with some and not with others. It seems to work best with the enclosed power cable, maybe because it’s a power<\/i> cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are four buttons on the back. The one on the far right is the Mode button, which switches it between a Bluetooth mode and a radio mode. The power button seems to require being held in, and when it powers up the speaker you’ll know, because the tank will light up. I am unsure if the power button turns the speaker off<\/i>; in my experiments it doesn’t seem to, and only cutting power to the speaker has worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I filled up the tank with water and added the snow balls. (Without water, the motor inside is very<\/i> loud, and with water you don’t even hear it.) The balls have a tendency to remain where they land — there was one stuck to Snoopy’s face for a while — and the tank needs frequent shakings and\/or stirrings to push the balls back toward the motor at the back that will kick them back up into the “air.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had no issues getting this to connect to my computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The LED lights inside change color over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speaker sounds fine. I shot some video of the speaker in action, and while it sounds muffled in the video in the room it wasn’t muffled at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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